Sleepers Awake Mona Kareem

Sleepers Awake Mona KareemOli Hazzard Oli Hazzard's third collection emerges from the daily disarray of care and work, nature and technology. Its ambitious, formally various poems extract 'the ore from boredom', as memory personal, familial, social, historical and the collective memory of poetry itself are wrenched out of shape by dramatic disruptions in rhythm, space and scale. The sadness and pain of forgetting is here, too, alongside its unexpected forms of potential. The

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this New Selected Poems presents his best and most characteristic: from his epic seafaring masterpiece 'The Nightfishing' to the quirky metaphysics of 'Implements in their Places'

and ceaselessly

and exposes the underbelly of our own biases-the ways in which they manifest in everyday language and collective consciousness

Ian Dreiblatt

In sea urchins and stones

The Naif lives in a practiced state of naivety—a language-fasted

like the game of hopscotch itself

the AIDS epidemic

euphemistically

At times the poet deploys short dialogues

was held at Whitechapel Gallery